DONAHUE, J

"Gov. Ely will be commended generally for appointing Judge Charles A. Donahue a justice of the supreme court, and the most sincere praise will come from those who realize the difficulties involved in such an exercise of the appointing power.

"Judge Donahue's Phi Beta Kappa key testifies to his scholarly acquirements. His experience of eight years in the superior court gives him a judicial orientation. His election as secretary of Dartmouth '99 indicates the appraisal of him by those who were closest to him in his plastic years. The regard of his associates of the superior court for him tells of his solid qualities of heart and mind. Under all the circumstances of age, judicial ability, character, race, religion, experience, training, education, fitness for the particular kind of work to be done, training, etc., which are considered in appointments to the supreme court of Massachusetts, the Governor could not have made a better choice. He has been a bit over-deliberate in filling the vacancy, but the fact that he has filled it acceptably is more than a sufficient offset to the delay.

"When the Sunday newspapers put Judge Donahue on the spotlight, they will find plenty of interesting material. It is said that no Dartmouth class has a member who is better loved than he. He is retiring and modest—the story that he questioned his own qualifications for the supreme court suggests an even undue modesty. He is perhaps less interested in the law as a set of broadening abstractions than as something which touches the welfare and happiness of human kind."